Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-10-31
GORDON IN OHIO.
HIS SPEECH In CIECINN Att
Jefferson Davis Reception at Macon ElO-
qusntly Discussed.

CINCINNATI, October 29.--In referring
to the reception of JEFF Davis Governor
Gordon, in his speech here last night, said:
1T is charged that we cheered jeff Dd-
Wis. Does that mean going to war again !?
Let me reason. Suppose we did not.
Suppose we turned our back on this pale
faced, broken-dOwn old man. What did
he do that had not done? do not think
that / shot erybOdy, but tried pretty
hard. You might ask me to turn cold
shoulder on the wife Of my bosom. She
went with me to the trout; she followed me
to the camp; shared my dangers, even to
the picket, and at times in the danger
of the battle and under Providence
owe to her tender nursing that
my life was spared. Why should |
hate her? II we should turn our backs on
that mar, refuse him our sympathy, we
would merit the scOrn of every brave man
and you would feel an absolute contempt.
When he left the U. s. Senate he left it
rich, full of regret and full of political
honOrs. For our sakes he became poor and
debarred for ever from political honors in
in his own country. He fingers to-day
with broken health aud scarcely a place
to lay his head dragging after him the
wounded limbs with increasing suffering
that followed him from Buena Vista"
"What would you think of me if said:
Go hence; have no use for you" am
not going TO doit would have contempt
for Gen. Marion who sat on the STAGE if
he went back on the grand old name OF
Abraham Lincoln. Put yourself In the
other fellows place 1t was my fortune 4
few weeks ago in Philadelphia to take part
in the celebration of the adoption of the
Constitution, and when Georgia had
taken her part l was proud
us stood in the streets, to see the shat
tered remnants OF the Union army, bear
ing the shattered remnants of the old flags
rs they were carried that night, amid the
applause of thousands, i felt the thrill
that knew was pulsating in the veins of
The strong, grand men. Why shouldn't
|? They were COnsecrated to cause,
which to those who gathered around them
Was holy as honor aud truth. | would
have no faith
IN HUME AND llBEklhr
if those men did not love their old fiags.
So, too, we loved ours. Let Us get out OF
the universe when hatred OF the South is
called loyalty to the North. | am going
to show you that our children should love
their flags. 4 man is better who has the
nerve 10 do Justice. whatever it costs. Was
there any honor i'll carrying those old flags?
hu
hands Of Southern women. They were de-
liyered to husbands and brothers cOnsecra-
ted by tears and prayers. Some were rent
with bullets, blackened with gunpawder
and redeemed with the blood of the brave. y
Don't we build monuments To the
Confederate dead? Why Gen. Grant, the
greatest general in the Union army, said he
WAS willing to share Ia the dedication of
monument TO the Confederate dead The
man who tries to stir your passions doesn't
deserve your votes. You see in your pa
pers column after column about rebel flags.
This il the truth. l Was there. There
were in all that great central city Of Macon,
Georgia, i
DOZEN CONFEDERATE FLAGS
and fifty thousand Of the stars and stripes,
and yet some people are 80 color-blind that
they could not see anything nut the rebel
flags. and yet the very carriages that bore
JEFF. Davis, and the horses that drew him,
were covered with Union flag The very
house that he was in was 50 covered with
them as to almost blind him. Some
speeches were made. The burden of them
all was that the Union was on a tirmer
basis than ever.